TCU’s turnaround men’s basketball season under first-year coach Jamie Dixon will include another game in Fort Worth because the Horned Frogs handled a double dose of difficulty in style Sunday in Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The Horned Frogs knocked off Iowa 94-92 in overtime in a second-round NIT matchup despite playing without freshman point guard Jaylen Fisher, who was scratched during warmups because of a season-ending wrist injury.
Even without Fisher, the highest-rated recruit in program history, the Frogs (21-15) persevered and prevailed in a loud, sold-out venue (capacity: 15,400) on a hot-shooting night by the Hawkeyes (19-15), the top seed in TCU’s quadrant of the NIT.